Fiona Grace Peterson (asker) Feb 20, 2019:

Thank you Joseph! While there is often a crossover in specialist fields within a single text (a text on tourism or food where a reference to legislation is given, for instance), this isn't the case here.

Joseph Tein Feb 20, 2019:

Settembre You're right, Phil ... the Settembre question is very silly and not relevant. Let me add another thought here: your time is better spent applying your considerable knowledge to providing a helpful answer of your own, or supporting another helpful answer as you did below.

Joseph Tein Feb 20, 2019:

@Phil Your changes (here and in the other question) are not helpful. The context is medical and the terms need to be understood and translated in a medical context.

Fiona Grace Peterson (asker) Feb 20, 2019:

Thank you Emily As Emily has pointed out, my question does not regard the meaning of the term, but how to word it best in a medical report. Phrasing changes depending on context; a quick look on Reverso for my term gives "in addition to", "additional", supplementary", to supplement", "in completion of", "complementary with", "complemented", "as a complement to", "to complete". All depending on context.
https://context.reverso.net/traduzione/italiano-inglese/a co...

Not to mention the fact that the specialist field entered appears on the home page (and elsewhere), so by changing it to "greetings" and "conversation", some people who work in the medical field may not even bother clicking on the question. While I appreciate your logic and good faith, I would ask you with all due respect to stop sabotaging other peoples' queries. A lot of straightforward questions get asked on Kudoz, which I'm sure a lot of experienced, veteran translators don't even glance at, so by changing the field of this question you're potentially discouraging people from seeing my query.

Emily Gilby Feb 20, 2019:

"Settembre" isn't a word that will have a different translation depending on the context so no I wouldn't. The asker knows the meaning of the phrase, she just wanted confirmation on how best to put it in a medical context, therefore, I believe the medical category is valid.

philgoddard Feb 20, 2019:

So just supposing, silly example, you wanted to post a question about, or look up, "settembre". Would you still set the filter to medical?

Emily Gilby Feb 20, 2019:

I'd have to agree with Fiona - I run all of my searches solely using the medical field filter as different words/phrases are translated differently depending on the context and I like to be sure that I'm using the correct phrasing/terminology for the specialism. While this phrase may be able to be translated the same way in more general contexts, I'd like to know that such phrases are acceptable to be used in the medical specialism.

philgoddard Feb 20, 2019:

Fiona Many of the terms in the sentence, such as "esame" and "mdc", are medical. Others, such as "eseguito" and "in solo", are not. Your question doesn't require medical knowledge.

Fiona Grace Peterson (asker) Feb 20, 2019:

@Phil Please stop doing this. People who work in the medical field may not look at the question if it's under "conversation" or "letters". Context is important here. Plus the term will not come up if someone narrows their searches to the medical field only.

philgoddard Feb 20, 2019:

I've changed the subject field because although the broader context is medical, this term is not.